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A West Texas city is coming under scrutiny by the Freedom from Religion Foundation for a cross that sits in a public park. Staff attorney Sam Groves said Thursday that the Wisconsin-based organization wrote Spur officials in July after a resident contacted the foundation to...

An advocacy group that successfully sued Texas on behalf of children in long-term foster care says state objections to reforms recommended by court-appointed experts don't square with official statements out of court. New York-based Children's Rights and the Texas lawyers who...

Today reports surfaced that a staffer at Patterson Middle School in Killeen, was forced to have her Christmas door decorations torn down by the school’s principal because they were “an issue of separation of church and state.” Ms. Shannon, who is on staff at Patterson Middle...

FROM THE OFFICE OF ATTY GEN'L KEN PAXTON AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the state of Texas will receive $1,015,420 in a $19.5 million settlement that 42 other state attorneys general reached with the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)...

FROM AAA TEXAS (Coppell, TX) – The statewide gas price average in Texas is $1.99 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is six cents more than last week and 16 cents more per gallon than last year. Of the major...

Hundreds of well-wishers applauded World War II veterans George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole during a patriotic Texas ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. The ex-president, who's 92, and the 93-year-old former Kansas senator attended Wednesday's event at...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection chief says the surge of Central American families seeking asylum at the southwestern U.S. border is not letting up. Gil Kerlikowske says apprehensions at the border can reach nearly 2,000 a day, with most people turning themselves in. He...

Texas could host the nation's next major fight over stricter requirements for immunizations as its rates of schoolchildren who refuse to get shots for non-medical reasons rises. The number of Texas kindergarten through 12th grade students who reported filing conscientious...